thanks Loran ----- Original Message ----- From: "Loran Hughes" <[email protected]> To: "Antique Phonograph List" <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, March 21, 2006 12:05 PM Subject: Re: [Phono-L] Paypal Spoof
> This is what is known as "phishing". They tend to target banks and > Paypal. NEVER click on a link from even a seemingly official looking > email from your financial institution. If you follow the instructions > in the email, you're bank account will be drained and you may even > become a victim of identity theft. > > These scams are being run by organized crime gangs primarily in > Russia and east Europe. The emails are sent from networks of infected > home PC's. Keep your antivirus up to date, run updates for your > favorite operating system in a timely fashion, and make sure there is > a firewall on your broadband connection. Otherwise it's only a matter > of time before you will be contributing to the problem. An > unprotected PC on broadband will, on average, be infected in about 12 > min. > > If you use Microsoft Windows, I recommend using Mozilla Thunderbird > for your email client. Not only does it have excellent junk mail > filtering, it will also warn you if you click on a link in an email > that it flags as suspicious. The upcoming IE7 and Firefox 2.0 will > both have phishing site detection capabilities when released (towards > the end of the year). In the meantime, you still have a much lower > chance of infection by NOT using Internet Explorer - use Firefox or > Opera instead. If you need a nearly spam-free email environment, try > gmail. > > Loran > > On Mar 21, 2006, at 7:53 AM, tim wrote: > >> Sorry if I sent this twice but not sure which phono-l address to use >> I recently received email stating it was from paypal wanting me to >> click on a link and log in because my account had been locked. I >> went to the paypal site >> and loged in and found out that it was not locked so I reported it to >> [email protected]. > > _______________________________________________ > Phono-L mailing list > [email protected] > > Phono-L Archive > http://www.oldcrank.org/pipermail/phono-l/
